Schools and education items in Durham County
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| Subject | Items |
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| Schools and education | 33 |
| Budget and appropriations | 15 |
| Health and human services | 8 |
| Contracts and procurement | 5 |
| Grants and outside funding | 5 |
| Housing and affordability | 5 |
| Bonds and debt | 4 |
| Economic development incentives | 4 |
| Environment and sustainability | 4 |
| Parks and recreation | 4 |
| Public facilities | 4 |
| Transit | 4 |
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Honors the life and contributions of Professor Charles Edison Smith, who taught for many years at the North Carolina Central University School of Law.Proclamation or recognition Schools and education
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Spends $278,200 of fund balance and adds $193,200 to the UNC Development Finance Initiative's study of the former Lowe's Grove School at 4505 South Alston Avenue, bringing in the Old Northern High School site and the Durham School of the Arts site. The contract total rises to $265,600; the rest pays for surveys, appra…
- 4505 S Alston Ave · 1.4 acres · Durham Public Schools
- 117 Tom Wilkinson Rd · 38 acres · Durham Public Schools
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Sends the board's comments to federal regulators opposing proposed changes to Head Start performance standards, citing the effect on Durham families and Durham PreK. Comments are due 6 October.
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Creates an Early Childhood Task Force of providers, employers, parents and others to study child care for children from birth to age three and report back with recommendations. Anything needing county money would come to the board separately.
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Closing out six completed Durham Public Schools capital projects: $48,404.11 moves to the county debt service fund and $12,517.87 to the county lottery account for future allocation, and the project budgets drop to zero.Approved on the consent agenda, unanimously.
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Recognizing $15,000 from the Burt's Bees Foundation for Conservation Corps North Carolina's ecological restoration work on county preserves.Approved on the consent agenda, unanimously.
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A $300,000 easement maintenance contract for county utilities with Stormwater Operations Specialists, with a ceiling of $325,000, paid from the sewer enterprise fund.Approved on the consent agenda, unanimously.
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A capital project amendment would appropriate $700,000 from the state's Public School Building Repair Fund for five Durham Public Schools projects. Water heater and life-safety repairs would each get $200,000, and roofing, flooring and elevator repairs would each get $100,000.Approved on the consent agenda, unanimously.
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The board would back a financing agreement between Durham Public Schools and Insight Investments LLC to buy about 1,996 interactive classroom panels for $5,302,859.41. Payments would run five annual installments of $1,060,571.88 through 2031. The county commits no new money; it is pledging that its ongoing school appr…Approved on the consent agenda, unanimously.
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A presentation on career pathway partnerships, set against the 1.14 million jobs in the combined Durham and Raleigh metropolitan areas.
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26-0422 Public School TransportationDurham Public Schools presents on student transportation and bus operations to the combined county, city, and school board.
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Shifts $933,464.49 from two completed Sheriff's Office capital projects, plus $142,587.23 in PAYGO funds, to fund the first year (total $1,076,051.72) of a five-year, up to $2,835,557.06 contract with Tritech/CentralSquare Technology to move the Sheriff's Office computer-aided dispatch system to the cloud.
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World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, Durham Refugee Day and Summer Learning Week.Proclamation or recognition Health and human servicesImmigration and enforcementSchools and education
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Proclamation or recognition Schools and education
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26-0237 Adoption of Bond Resolution for Not to Exceed $100,000,000 General Obligation Bonds, Series 2026AA resolution authorizing up to $100 million in General Obligation Bonds, drawing on school, community college, and museum bond authority approved by voters in the November 2022 referendum, to be sold competitively to the lowest-interest-cost bidder.
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26-0273 Durham Public SchoolsDurham Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Anthony Lewis and CFO Jeremy Teeter presented the district's FY2027 budget request.
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26-0253 Durham Pre-K DiscussionStaff updated both boards on the Durham Pre-K program's enrollment and student progress.
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26-0255 DPS Final Budget RequestDurham Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Anthony Lewis presented the district's final FY2027 budget request to the county commissioners.
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The two board chairs discussed updates to the Memorandum of Understanding governing the relationship between Durham County and Durham Public Schools, comparing a new draft against the 2017, 2021, and 2022 versions.
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26-0188 Resolution - Honoring Southern School of Energy and Sustainability's Boys Basketball ChampionshipHonors the Southern School of Energy and Sustainability boys' basketball team, which beat Morrisville 54-47 on 14 March for the NCHSAA 7A state title, the school's first, and finished 28-3.
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Honors the Southern School of Energy and Sustainability girls' basketball team, Tobacco Road 7A champions and state runner-up, with a 27-4 record.
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Proclaims the Week of the Young Child in Durham County.Proclamation or recognition Schools and education
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A resolution opposing the General Assembly's proposed changes to county property tax authority, on the ground that property taxes fund public safety, emergency response, schools and public health.Adopted unanimously (voice vote, per the recording)
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Four policy sessions. Human services federal and state support, presented jointly by an assistant county manager, the public health director and the social services director. Family Treatment Court, with the justice services director, the social services director, the public defender and a district court judge. A pre-…
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A long consent agenda of budget ordinance and capital project amendments, a vehicle maintenance contract, an EPA environmental grant the manager was authorised to execute, the third-quarter Durham annual transit work programme, an updated city-county interlocal agreement, and a fire and rescue consolidation interlocal…
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This consent block carried over five items from the canceled January 26 meeting: a $133,000 organizational-assessment contract with Baker Tilly Advisory Group, a $500,000 contract with Hayti Reborn - Justice Movement, a resolution endorsing the Downtown Durham Blueprint: 2035, a $350,000 contract with Urban Ministries…
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A proclamation recognizing BULLS Academy Life Sciences Day, a workforce program that has graduated 190 students across its first eleven cohorts.Proclamation or recognition Schools and education
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An incentive of up to $5,500,000 for two Novartis manufacturing projects, against roughly 280 jobs and $540 million of investment over five years. The award is paid from the new tax revenue the projects generate, only after annual verification that the company hit its job, investment and community targets, and only wh…
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An incentive of up to $750,000 for Aspida Financial Services to build its headquarters in Durham, against roughly 1,000 jobs and $28.75 million of investment over five years. Same structure as the Novartis award: paid out of the new tax revenue, verified annually. Aspida was founded in 2020 and is already based in Dur…
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Public Health staff will present the CDC's 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of middle and high schoolers and the 2024 State of the County Health report, which lists affordable housing, health-care access, community safety, mental health, and nutrition and physical activity as the county's top health priorities.
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The consent agenda includes an EV-charger purchase for the 500 E. Main Street parking deck, a $312,000 budget amendment for the Cooperative Extension 4-H program, July property tax releases and refunds, a janitorial contract amendment for the Main Library, a letter of support for a passenger rail station study in RTP,…Consent agenda Appointments and personnelBudget and appropriationsParks and recreationPublic facilitiesRoads and transportationSchools and education
- 500 E Main St · 0.98 acres · Maizon Durham Owner LLC
- 114 S Elizabeth St · 1.5 acres · County of Durham
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The consent agenda includes a $1,500,000 budget amendment to fund the Durham Affordable Housing Loan Fund, part of a $5 million push by the county, city and Duke University to grow the revolving loan fund to $30 million; a $656,331.78 purchase of Sheriff's Office FY26 vehicle equipment; a $562,240.31 EMS billing and c…Consent agenda Budget and appropriationsDrugs and addictionFire and EMSGrants and outside fundingHealth and human servicesHousing and affordabilityPolice and public safetyPublic facilitiesSchools and educationTransit
- 1129 E Geer St · 0.84 acres · Knightdale Holdings LLC
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The consent agenda includes a $1,500,000 budget amendment to fund the Durham Affordable Housing Loan Fund, part of a $5 million push by the county, city and Duke University to grow the revolving loan fund to $30 million; a $656,331.78 purchase of Sheriff's Office FY26 vehicle equipment; a $246,815.70 contract with Bli…
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